Stephanie

Yeats helps in therapy by using skills such as retrieval skills to help challenge people’s balance. This is a fun and interactive way that helps people work on improving their balance and reduce their risk for falls. Yeats also provides pet therapy. He attends assisted living facilities and independent living facilities and provides comfort for those who are sick and need a little extra TLC.

Yeats will be participating as part of the Rehab Team and will be helping in stroke rehab by using retrieval skills to assist with balance activities, a tool to help people and motivate people who have limited use of of 1 upper extremity by having them pet Yeats. He we also assist in gait training by assisting in their gait training.

Grace’s Blog

Hello Everyone, I just have to tell you about how amazing my summer is going so far! I’m one of the lucky PAALS pup’s who gets to help children learn all kinds of things during Summer PAALS! PAALS camp is so fun and it is so rewarding teaching children all about service dogs. I’m having so much fun already and rumor has it we are going to the Columbia Metropolitan Airport and going to see a movie in a real movie theater!!! I’m pretty nervous about how I’m going to act in those challenging places but I have faith in all of the amazing junior trainers that are helping me learn new things everyday!!! Can’t wait to see what PAALS has planned for me during the rest of the summer!!!

Hello everyone, sorry that I haven’t checked in for a while but I have been having so much fun with all of my PAALS friends that it’s hard to find time to write!!! I don’t want you guys to think that all I do is play…I have been training like crazy as well. I was lucky enough to visit Kershaw County Correctional Institute this past weekend. I have to admit, I was a bit nervous at first but once I found out how nice everyone was and how much I was going to learn I realized I was lucky to be part of such an amazing program!!! I love how PAALS has so many different programs to choose from, it’s going to be a fun summer at PAALS!!!

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"I don't know what I did before I had Emmy. . . All I can say, is God bless PAALS and all the people who work to support it, all the staff, all the trainers, all the volunteers, all the locations that so generously have permitted PAALS to train their dogs on-site"
–Dr. Riggs, Client with PAALS dog Emmy

"I want to say thank you for all you have done this past year for this prison. Inmates and staff alike. I am just amazed. God brought you and this program to this prison. We will never know how many people this touches.
–Warden Reynolds, Prison PAALS

"We gave up any notion of Jeff having an assistance dog (after years of talking with trainers). Then PAALS came into our lives. We can't emphasize enough what being a part of PAALS organization has meant to our family. PAALS has been such a positive experience."
– Leanne, mom of client Jeff and PAALS dog Copper.

"I want to thank you and PAALS for all you have done and are doing for Julie. She feels very close to you. The idea of a service dog has given Julie great hope"
– Client's grandparents

"I loved being able to see how those dogs will help people in their daily lives."
– Ashley, service learning USC student